1 Porous Magnetic Materials: My group is focusing on synthesizing materials that are both porous as well as magnetic because of their potential applications in separation of air and absorption of oxygen from air in a non-cryogenic process.

2 Supercapacitors for layered composite Materials: Layered composite materials of metal chalchogenides with reduced graphene oxide are being prepared and their supercapacitor capacity is being tested, as these materials shows potential applications in storage devices.

3. Organic-Inorganic hybrid materials: Organic-inorganic hybrid open-framework bismuth sulfates with the layered and three-dimensional structures have been synthesized and characterized. The arrangement in bismuth atom in one of the compound suggests the presence of stereo active lone pair of electrons. All compounds show good fluorescence properties exhibiting blue luminescence.

4. Heterogeneous Catalysis in Metal-Organic Frameworks: Different strategies are being used to introduce catalytically-active sites to facilitate the reaction inside MOFs. One approach is to utilize the metal-connecting points which coordination environments is saturated with coordinated water or other solvent molecules that can be easily removed without destroying the parent framework. In another approach, the catalytic sites are incorporated directly into the bridging ligands used for the construction of MOFs. The great challenge in MOFs chemistry is to synthesize Rh-MOF with a structure similar to [M3(BTC)2]22b, (BTC= Benzene tricarboxylic acid).

5. Nano-materials and Metal clusters: Nano-material chemistry is an area of increasing attention with various interesting applications. We are focusing on the synthesis of metal oxides and cluster of different shape and sizes for catalytic and materials applications.

6 Low-temperature Multiferroics: We are also developing the strategies to synthesize materials with ferroelectric properties at low temperature.